David Torrance (born 7 August 1977 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a British political journalist, author and contemporary historian.
Torrance is best known for his unauthorised biography of Alex Salmond and his political commentary for STV and BBC.
[2] Torrance briefly took a break from his television commitments to work as Parliamentary Aide to the Shadow Scottish Secretary David Mundell at the House of Commons.
[3] He has a PhD in history and political science, from the University of the West of Scotland[3][4] In 2006, Torrance wrote his first work The Scottish Secretaries following the history of those men who served as chief minister in charge of the Scottish Office in the UK government from 1885 onward.
Torrance's work has largely focused on current and historical Scottish politics with an occasional divergence into non-political subject matters.